Server Updates

Login names and passwords are case-sensitive. The #musicbrainz IRC channel is logged and archived. HTML and CSS improvements.

Changes since the last release (10 Feb 2003):

Tagger

a lot of people were experiencing problems uploading anything more
than a small amount of TRM data at a time, using the Tagger. This was
due to some server code which was too slow, the client was “timing out” waiting for it. The offending code has now been sped up a lot, so you shouldn’t see that error any more.

when showing TRM collisions in the tagger, sort the albums by artist and show the artist name

when showing found albums/tracks in the tagger, show the album
attributes (e.g. “Official Album”, “Official Various Artists
Compilation”). Also show the track length.

when a discid has just been added (via the tagger), show the album
you’ve just added the discid to.

fixed a bug whereby sometimes “various artists” albums were not
returned to the tagger

Moderating

login names, as well as passwords, are now case-sensitive

ensured that the “related artist” data is maintained for artist
removals and artist merges

when merging artists or moving an album, the “source” artist is never shown as a possible match. Also a full search is done for artists (e.g. if you enter “Bach”, you’ll get every artist matching “Bach”, not just J.S.Bach)

various textual pages updated, especially the front page, the Finances page, and the download page

My and Rob’s TODO lists are now much more up-to-date (and are much
more likely to be /kept/ up-to-date, since it’s now easier for us to do). However, these pages aren’t really there on the staging server, but trust me, they’ll be there when it goes live.

general re-working of some HTML to be more “modern”, making more use of CSS

Other (non-web) server updates

various fixes and improvements relating to importing and exporting data.